Vetted Stakeholder Communication Professionals

Alex ZhuZhou

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI/LLM platforms and data systems

Berkeley, CA2y exp

“Backend/LLM engineer with experience productionizing RAG systems (legal-case natural language querying) and optimizing for latency/cost, including a reported ~40% reduction via Redis caching and batching. Built monitoring and real-time debugging workflows (FastAPI, structured logging, correlation IDs, sandbox repro) and regularly delivered technical demos/workshops. Also partners with BD/sales to translate LLM capabilities into business value, including ESG-metric extraction from corporate filings.”

Harshana Ragipindi

Screened

Mid-level Support/Software Engineer specializing in incident response, automation, and AWS monitoring

USA4y exp

“Built and owned end-to-end travel booking and baggage fee calculation platforms used by both customer support and customers, emphasizing fast iteration with automated guardrails and production visibility. Experienced designing TypeScript/React systems and operating RabbitMQ-based microservices at scale, including disciplined event contracts, idempotent consumers, and schema evolution strategies. Also created an internal real-time troubleshooting/pricing console that replaced fragmented tools and improved support resolution workflows through pilot-led adoption.”

Yang Sherpa

Screened

Mid-level operations and analytics professional specializing in FinTech and client delivery

New York, NY5y exp

“Operations leader with ~5 years of experience in fintech, finance, and data operations, including scaling deal execution at EquityZen during the pre-IPO secondary market boom. Stands out for building process infrastructure in fast-moving, compliance-heavy environments—creating tracking systems, CRM workflows, and onboarding playbooks that increased deal volume and cut onboarding time from weeks to days.”

“Search/backend engineer with hands-on experience improving Apache Solr-based search systems end-to-end (indexing strategy changes, ETL updates, and Java/Spring Boot Search API work). Demonstrated production rigor with QA partnership, A/B testing, and rollback-safe kill switches, plus measurable product impact (e.g., +1.5% add-to-cart) and operational troubleshooting including traffic/security mitigation.”

“Customer support professional with Scrum Master and Product Owner certifications who has handled high-stakes account security incidents (including locking down an account to protect over $200k) and troubleshot live data feed integrations (XML/socket) by identifying IP whitelisting mismatches. Emphasizes transparent stakeholder communication, escalation, and building internal wiki documentation to prevent repeat issues.”

Velusamy Ramasamy

Screened

Principal Software Architect specializing in cloud platforms, data engineering, and enterprise security

Seattle, WA29y exp

“Engineering leader with experience defining solutions from business requirements through detailed specifications and implementation, emphasizing cost-aware technology selection. Has led architectural changes including adding IBM Cloud alongside AWS for budget reasons and integrating caching/messaging to improve availability and performance, and describes scaling distributed teams via experienced DevOps/QA hires and structured evaluation.”

Deepika Gotla

Screened

Senior Technical Support Engineer specializing in Azure Cloud & Generative AI

Bellevue, WA7y exp

“Microsoft cloud/infra engineer with 5+ years supporting enterprise Azure environments, specializing in security-focused networking (private endpoints, DNS) and production troubleshooting across Azure Front Door/App Gateway WAF/AKS. Has implemented posture improvements via Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, and RBAC tightening, and also designs secure AWS agent/scanner integrations and modern EKS/GitHub Actions/Secrets Manager observability-enabled SDK rollouts.”

Abraham Musa

Screened

Senior Solutions Architect specializing in cloud AI infrastructure and security

Union City, NJ9y exp

“Cloud-native architect focused primarily on AWS, with experience designing Kubernetes and AI/ML infrastructure for customers rather than owning day-to-day operations. Particularly interesting for AI platform roles: they described using Amazon Bedrock to analyze Terraform and automatically generate compliant IaC templates and runbooks for new multi-cloud AI environments.”

“Enterprise implementation leader with 10+ years delivering multi-million-dollar B2B/SaaS rollouts across procurement, expense management, legal tech, and fraud/identity platforms. At Amazon Business, managed 12+ concurrent enterprise implementations and owned the full lifecycle from strategy and change management through go-live, with strong executive stakeholder management and governance discipline.”

Ben Kleiman

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in AI, data platforms, and national security

Denver, CO17y exp

“Head of Product at Bitly who built the company's Trust & Safety strategy and led a patent-pending abuse-detection platform that intercepted over 700 million harmful clicks. Also launched Bitly Assist, an LLM-powered assistant designed around human control and workflow integration, showing unusual depth in both AI product strategy and high-stakes safety/governance.”

Michael Singleton

Screened

Executive Soccer Coach & Sports Psychology Leader in Coaching Education

St. Petersburg, FL29y exp

“Senior soccer leader and educator: former NCAA coach across Div I/II/III, youth national team contributor, and ex-leader within a major state soccer organization. Now VP of Education at United Soccer Coaches, known for integrating sports psychology into coaching and for transforming Washington & Lee into a #1-ranked, perennial Final Four program while also excelling in recruiting and player evaluation.”

Jamie Jones

Screened

Executive biotech and pharma commercial leader (CEO/CBO/VP) specializing in growth, launches, and fundraising

Greater Boston, MA37y exp

“Entrepreneur and fundraising leader with 8 years raising $500K–$55M across life sciences, transportation, and brand marketing. Notably raised $55M for an oncology startup by de-risking the story and sourcing aligned institutional investors with drug development expertise. Brings a highly structured, metrics-driven approach to validation and surgical go-to-market execution in resource-constrained environments.”

“Platform/infrastructure-focused engineer with hands-on experience automating AWS EKS upgrades in Python, building observability around logs/metrics/SLOs, and migrating Terraform delivery from CodePipeline to Atlantis. They describe shipping automation that handled 140 resources across 50+ Terraform files ahead of schedule and debugging a Karpenter/CoreDNS regression in Kubernetes by tracing it from regional traffic spikes to a missing local DNS cache configuration.”

“Backend/platform engineer with experience at Fidelity and PayPal, spanning financial systems, payment pipelines, and regulated AI workflows. They’ve owned large-scale deployments end-to-end, including a brokerage platform for 150,000+ accounts, and have hands-on experience integrating OpenAI into internal research tooling with compliance-safe validation and human review.”

“Shopify full-stack engineer focused on AI/LLM-powered merchant automation products. They have hands-on experience building React/TypeScript and Python/FastAPI systems for long-running agentic workflows, including orchestration, guardrails, observability, and customer-facing trust features, with measurable gains in task completion and latency.”

Carlos Morales

Screened

Director-level QA Manager specializing in AAA game testing, live services, and VR worlds

San Francisco, CA16y exp

“Game QA professional with ~5 years in embedded QA roles across major studios (Experis Game Solutions, Activision, Ubisoft, Meta), including ownership of the Weapons feature area on Ubisoft’s XDefiant and feature testing on Warzone. Known for risk-based, cross-system test coverage (matchmaking/party, progression, entitlements/MTX, performance across PC/console, live-service integrations) and for leading cross-discipline meetings and release readiness reviews.”